Saketini

Along with the chocolate martini, other popular concoctions include the saketini (Japanese martini made with sake), the cosmotini and the jalapenotini (made with hot jalapeno peppers).

Wash it all down with a saketini or my personal fave, the gingertini, which is made with ginger, vodka, triple sec, ginger ale, and pickled ginger juice.

And La Thai has just launched a new signature cocktail menu that includes fresh seasonal fruit Martinis and Mojitos and specialty concoctions such as Lycheetini (vodka, lychee liqueur, lychee juice and coconut lemongrass sake), Mama's Best In The West (pear sake, Stoli Orange, Midori Melon, orange juice and green sugar), Cold Zen Tea (Charbray green tea vodka, gin, rum, green tea liqueur, triple sec and lemongrass), Raspberry Saketini (sake, Stoli Raspberry, Cointreau, Chambord, fresh lime and raspberries), Buddha's Hand (Grey Goose Limon vodka, muddled raspberries, lime and ginger) and French Martini (vodka, Chambord and pineapple juice).

It was all downhill from there. Now you've got the pickletini, the appletini, the choclatini, and even—good heavens—the bacontini. As different types of alcohol were used in place of gin, that began to shift the name too. In addition to the vodkatini, there's the sakitini, the whiskitini (more commonly known as a smokey martini, but I'm on a roll, here), and the taqini. If you substitute beer for the gin, you've got a mantini.

“Oh, um...” “Are we drinking?” “No. No.” “I am if you are.” [chuckles] “Oh. Uh...” “Liquid lunch.” “How is the lychee saketini?” “That sounds amazing.” “Right?” “Yes.” “Okay. Two of those, thank you.”